Friday, November 28, 2025
On 3rd November 2023, Lancashire Constabulary published a post on TikTok which contained a video of a young man, Muhammed Mubashir Ali Ahmed, inside a police station, together with a video of another man whose face was hidden throwing a firework at a police car.
The post alleged that Mr Ali Ahmed was the man who had thrown the firework and was being punished for his actions. We are happy to clarify that this was untrue, and that Mr Ali Ahmed was not the man in the first video.
We are further happy to clarify that the video of Mr Ali Ahmed, taken from the CCTV in the police station which had been recorded at a time when he was still legally a child, should not have been retained or used for a social media post.
We apologise to Mr Ali Ahmed for this, and have agreed to destroy the video recordings as well as the TikTok Post. The Lancashire Constabulary TikTok account added to the hurt experienced by Mr Ali Ahmed in overlaying the TikTok Post with a clip of the pop star Rihanna singing “you look so dumb right now” and making comments underneath the post.
We apologise sincerely for having done this.